Not exactly the voice inside your head

No Weapons Checks at Debate

Normally, I’m not one to believe in conspiracies. But this seems wrong.

Security details at Barack Obama’s rally Wednesday stopped screening people for weapons at the front gates more than an hour before the Democratic presidential candidate took the stage at Reunion Arena.

The order to put down the metal detectors and stop checking purses and laptop bags came as a surprise to several Dallas police officers who said they believed it was a lapse in security.

Dallas Deputy Police Chief T.W. Lawrence, head of the Police Department’s homeland security and special operations divisions, said the order — apparently made by the U.S. Secret Service — was meant to speed up the long lines outside and fill the arena’s vacant seats before Obama came on.

I think the first question we need to ask is why the Secret Service has the power to do this? Why did the Dallas police go along with it? Second, the very fact that it was the Secret Service is quite frightening. When pressed, will the fascists give up power so easily?